• A citizens group in Michigan is already counting down the days to when they can legally petition for a recall of Governor Rick Snyder. It won’t do much good, because even if they’re successful, an emergency financial manager will fire the citizens.

• Defending Dick Durbin. I don’t know that his role in Social Security benefit cuts is particularly defensible.

• No agreement from the UN Security Council on Yemen. I wonder how hard the United States was really pushing for action from the council this time. The blame is being placed on Russia.

• Yves Smith notes that we shouldn’t overlook the part of the S&P rating of US debt that flagged the financial sector as a substantial risk. “Most importantly, we believe the risks from the U.S. financial sector are higher than we considered them to be before 2008,” S&P writes.

• Speaking of airports, TSA screeners voted to unionize today, but they didn’t pick a specific union. That will have to be decided in a runoff between the American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union.

• You can hardly argue with the stance of Tom Cole when he notes that the “czar” provision that Obama did away with in a signing statement was part of a “mutually agreed-upon document.” Why accept its inclusion in the first place?